Tuesday3Apr 2018

Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so Sensational?

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PST
2018-04-03 19:00 2018-04-03 21:00 America/Los_Angeles Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so Sensational? Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/47358 FIC CHAPEL Wallace All Faiths Chapel

Free to attend

FIC CHAPEL

Wallace All Faiths Chapel

General Public

Everyone is welcome to attend

In this lecture Prof. James Charlesworth will explain and illustrate why the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls (hidden in eleven caves near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea before 68 CE) have revolutionized our understanding of pre-70 CE Judaism (when Roman soldiers burned Jerusalem), John the Baptizer, Jesus from Nazareth, and the origins of what would become “Christianity.”

 

James H. Charlesworth is Princeton Theological Seminary’s George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature. He has authored over 400 articles or book chapters, edited or co-edited more than 100 volumes, and written some 40 monographs. He specializes in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old and New Testaments, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Jesus research, and the Gospel of John. As director of Princeton’s Dead Sea Scrolls Project, he has worked on the Qumran Scrolls to make available, in cooperation with more than fifty international specialists, an accurate text with apparatus criticus, an English translation, and an introduction. He has excavated at Migdal, Bethsaida, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Khirbet Beza, Qumran, and elsewhere and been honored for his work around the world. An ordained minister in The United Methodist Church, he also serves as advisor to the denomination's World Missionary Council and preaches and lectures globally.

Free and Open to the Public

For further information, please contact Prof. Nancy Martin, nmartin@chapman.edu

 

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